He’s framing his speech as America-first. It’s about whether jobs will be created here, or beyond our borders, he says.

Suddenly it’s America first? After the world bowing tour? After endlessly bashing us to foreign potentates? After apologizing for America left and right, and declaring essentially that American exceptionalism ain’t necessarily so?

Mark Landsbaum is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and journalist who has written for a living for 43 years, ever since discovering he had no particular talents. He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, and in the archives of the Orange County Register, where he wrote a column for 10 years.

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